Garments are produced in the garments factories on industrial basis for all the people of a specific country. Bangladesh is one of the garments producing & exporting country in the world market. At present, there are about 4500 garments factories running in Bangladesh. Growth of garments factories started in Bangladesh around 1980. Around 1980, garment production & export business was almost unknown to us. Foreign currency earning through garments export from Bangladesh started in 1980-81 with starting figure US $ 3.24 million which was not countable in percentage of the total national foreign currency earnings. Afterwards, tremendous growth of garment factory, garment productions and garments export, the percentage of foreign currency earnings through garments export reached from 0% to around 80% of the national foreign currency earnings in 2007- 2008 financial year.
At present Bangladesh is producing & exporting more than 60item of garments. The most common items are shirt, trouser, jacket, sports wear. T –shirt, Polo shirts, ladies wear, sweater, socks, hats etc. this produced items are exported in USA, Canada, EEC, Japan, Australia, Middle-East and many other countries in the world. Bangladesh is one of the important and competitive garments exporting country in the world market. Cheapest labor cost is the biggest advantage for Bangladeshi garments producers and exporters..
To produce and export garments form these 4500 garments factories about 2000000 people is engaged full time basis. For backward linkage around 20000000 people is needed and for forward linkage about 2000000 people is need. Hence for year to year continuous garment export around 6000000 people is needed. 90% of these huge work forces are illiterate and remaining 10% may be counted for literate. It is a v3ery big challenge for Bangladesh to survive as garment exporter in the world market with that type of man power. But it still remains true that the growth of Bangladesh garments sector is satisfactory.
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